Notebook·34 CDF art. 136-2·1963

Enkomi excavation notebook 1963, Jacques-Claude CourtoisJacques-Claude Courtois

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Handwritten in French and German. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 23 of notebook 34 CDF art. 136-2 (Enkomi excavation notebook 1963, Jacques-Claude Courtois), handwritten in French and German. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 136-2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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The surface of floor III at 0 m 90 of average depth hardened during the summer dry period, so that all the fragments of animal bones and of vessels have remained well in their original position. The cleaning of the bench at kalathos 834 of 1962 led to the uncovering of a very important fragment of a vessel stirrup of Sub-Mycenaean/Protogeometric type, with a small cone at the top, very characteristic. = pt. top. 954

Tr. Ouest Dallage: uncovering of a skeleton human, in the final layer of Enkomi between 0 m 50 and 0 m 70 depth onlying, zone 2, with a pendant (?) of faience, pt. top. 956 = in reality, it was a "pit" simply hardened on the surface ..... (fragments of M. Bronze bowls)

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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